NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

STS-77

Launch Time
Sun May 19, 1996 10:30 UTC

Rocket

Space Shuttle Endeavour
NASA
Status: Retired
Price: $450.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 30,250 kN
Payload to LEO: 27,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 3,810 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 2
Rocket Height: 56.1 m

Vehicles

Kennedy SLF Runway 33

OV-105

Flight #11
129 day turnaround

Mission Details

STS-77

During the flight the crew performed microgravity research aboard the commercially owned and operated SPACEHAB module. The mission also deployed and retrieved the Spartan-207/IAE (Inflatable Antenna Experiment) satellite and rendezvoused with a test satellite. A suite of four technology experiments known as the Technology Experiments for Advancing Missions in Space (TEAMS) also flew in the Shuttle's payload bay.

Total Mass: 12,233.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Stats

1996

34th orbital launch attempt

Space Shuttle

77th mission
4th mission of 1996
76th successful mission
52nd consecutive successful mission